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@einen tetes gnomil @frn CHARLES E.A PALMER, 0F M ANCH ESTER, NEW' AMPSHIRE.' Letters .Potent No. 73,@32, dated January?, 1868.

IMPROVEMNT In STEAM-relire."

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PALMER, of h'Ialnchester, in the county of Hillsborough, and State of New Hampshire, have invented o new end useful Improvement in Stemmi-Traps; and I do hereby declare than; the following is a clear and exact deseription thereof, which will enable others 'skilled in the art to make und use the sume, reference being had to the neeompunying` liawings, forming apart of this speccation, in which- Figure 1 represents u plan or inside view of this invention.

Figure` 2 representsan end elevation of the coupling end valve-seat.

Figure 3 represents o side elevation of the same. y

Figure 4 represents n sido and partial enti elevation ofthe valve-seat.

Siinilnr letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to n steam-trap having n. movable vlve-seat, held in position by means of' a poi'.- ttionetl coupling screwed to the lend of the escape-pipe, and topped to receive through its partition the shank 0f the \1ztlvesei.tt.4 n l Y The invention consists, first, in n. partitioned coupling, lg. l, A B, constructed of composition or other metal, which resists the oxidizing notion of vwaiter and steam, with itspartition tapped through its centre, to permit the passage ofthe volvo-seat shank D second, thc devices-,for regulating the valve by means of n movable seat,'C, with its shank D passing through the partition B, fitting it closely by means of n screw-thread,

` which enables it to be esil'f advanced towards the vulve, or withdrawn from it.

Having thus zeseribed myrinvention, I claim as new,- end desire to secure by Letters Patent- The movable vulve-seat C, constructed with n partitioned coupling, A. B, substantially as set forth. tlhe above specification of my invention signed by me, this' eleventh day of' October, A. D. 1867. CHARLES E. PALMER. Witnesses: i

RICHARD J. P. GOODWIN,

WILLIAM R. PATTEN. 

